Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books


Book Description

Provides literature-based activities for teaching math to students in grades one through three, each with activities, reproducible patterns, and recording sheets.




The Tangram Magician


Book Description

Based on the Chinese puzzle game, this story follows a magician's imagination that leads to the changes in shapes of the puzzles and story by constant rearrangement of the pieces of stickers.




Grandfather Tang's Story


Book Description

Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.




Tangram Puzzles


Book Description

High interest math content correlated to National Math Standards as well as National Standards for social studies, science, music, and art




The Tangram Route to Infinity


Book Description

This book explores new and exciting ways with the Tangram puzzle. Many of the ideas are original both from the mathematical and artistic perspective. There are chapters on tessellating Tangrams, Tangram Mosaics and series of designs that exploit the precious nature of the tiles. A chapter is devoted to the creation of three dimensional objects and for the more mathematical mind there is a chapter on the representation of the designs using matrices. The book is full of remarkable illustrations, created by the author. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this book is a heavy tome.




Adventures of a Kid Magician


Book Description

Adventures of a Kid Magician is Zach's private journal, detailing how magic gets Zach both into and out of trouble as he learns life lessons! Along with Zach's thrilling stories and eye-catching sketches, each adventure comes with a secret magic code that will take you to an exclusive online video of the actual magic tricks used in the adventure! You too will experience the excitement of fooling and impressing your friends with top magician Justin Flom's creative instruction.




Super-Easy Shape Art


Book Description

Young learners will love creating delightful projects--and you’ll love tapping into fresh ideas that connect math and art! Children explore the shapes in their world through irresistible art projects like Sponge-Paint Shape Critters, Cut-n-Paste Quilts, and many more! This one-of-a-kind resource is complete with reproducible shape patterns, interactive bulletin board ideas, and cross-curricular links to help make teaching shapes a snap! Includes easy how-to’s and time-saving tips! For use with Grade PreK-K.




Discrete Mathematics in the Schools


Book Description

This book provides teachers of all levels with a great deal of valuable material to help them introduce discrete mathematics into their classrooms.




The Organized Teacher's Guide to Being a Creative Teacher, Grades K-6, Third Edition


Book Description

Liven up your lesson plans and energize your students! Winner of a Teacher's Choice Award!To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. This award-winning resource offers hundreds of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject across grades K-6. You’ll find inspiration to help you wake up tired book reports and make math more fun. This new edition has been fully revised to align with the Common Core Standards. There’s a host of reproducible content such as worksheets, project ideas, templates for journal pages included in the book and available online. From submarine sandwich book reports to graphic organizers to help incorporate writing into math curriculum, The Creative Teacher, Third Edition, has ideas and materials to add zing to your classroom plans as you incorporate the Common Core Standards.The Creative Teacher, Third Edition features: •Content that aligns with Common Core standards•Reproducible, ready-to-use pages in the book and online•Prompts and tools to keep students motivated and engaged•Hundreds of creative ideas to liven up your lessons, and more




The Creative Teacher


Book Description

Written by three highly experienced educators and authors of the bestselling The Organized Teacher A valuable resource for new or experienced teachers, providing more material than any other book for the price Contains highly illustrated reproducible 8-1/2 x 11 worksheets and other materials for immediate classroom use